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...Born Milton Supman in Franklinton, N.C., he served in the Navy during World War II and earned a journalism degree from Marshall College. In his first radio gigs, he called himself Soupy Hines, but he changed it to Soupy Sales when he got a radio-TV spot in Cleveland. He later said he left that job for health reasons - "They got sick of me." He clicked in Detroit, though, with his first TV kids' show in 1953. Supported by puppeteer Clyde Adler and a crew that provided the laughter (Sales rarely worked before a live audience), he adapted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Farewell to the Pieman: Soupy Sales, 1926-2009 | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

Fast Facts: • Born Oct. 23, 1945, in Brockton, Mass., Feinberg, now 63, earned a degree in history from the University of Massachusetts, where he became involved in theater and briefly considered a career as an actor. Instead, he decided to pursue a law degree at NYU, where he served as articles editor of the Law Review...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Compensation Czar Kenneth Feinberg | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

...plans to hold town-hall meetings in 15 Mexican cities beginning January to pull the expat community together and launch a massive letter-writing campaign. He and other proponents are also hoping to engage another key group in the fight, the so-called returnees - Mexican dual citizens, or Mexican-born citizens with legal status in the U.S. who are Medicare-eligible after a lifetime of payroll contributions. In the U.S., proponents will focus on gaining the support of a key member of Congress to carry the banner. Warner says two from Texas are likely targets: Democratic U.S. Representative Eddie Bernice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicare Savings: Is the Answer in Mexico? | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

Though Andrew Garfield was born in LA, he has had a British accent since his family moved to England three years after he was born. Unfortunately, the only clip of his acting that FlyBy was able to scrounge up was of him making a blunt proposition to a girl who he likes and who likes him. But...well, she's just...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi | Title: The Facebook Movie Has Been Cast, Acting Skills Questionable | 10/22/2009 | See Source »

Then again, according to other polls, about a third of Republicans nationally don't think Obama was born in the U.S. A disproportionate number of them are the people who go to rallies and vote in primaries. The activists will probably be the heart of Rubio's campaign - although the candidate told me he doesn't consider the President's birth certificate an issue. "There are much bigger problems to worry about," Rubio said. "There is the massive growth of government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside Florida's Red-Meat Republican Primary | 10/22/2009 | See Source »

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